Silence - inserts silence

Tone... - you can create a Sine wave, Square wave, or Sawtooth wave.

White Noise - inserts random audio samples, which sounds like pure static.

Any items which appear after these three built-ins are VST, Ladspa, or Nyquist plug-ins. It is possible for a poorly written plug-in to crash Audacity, so always save your work before using a plug-in. Note that any effect that doesn't take any audio as input will automatically be placed in the Generate menu.

Effect Menu

The items in this menu only work when you have audio selected. Audacity does not have any real- time effects; you must select the audio, apply the effect, and then listen to the results.

Most effects have a Preview button. Clicking on this button plays up to three seconds of audio, allowing you to hear what it will sound like after the effect is applied. This is useful for fine-tuning the effect parameters.

Repeat Last Effect - selecting this command is a shortcut to applying the most recent effect with the same settings. This is a convenient

way to quickly apply the same effect to many different parts of a file.

Amplify - changes the volume of the selected audio. If you click the "Allow clipping" checkbox, it will let you amplify so much that the audio ends up beyond the range of the waveform, and is clipped (distorted). The default value when you open the effect is to amplifiy so that the loudest part of the selection is as loud as possible without distortion.

Bass Boost - enhances the bass frequencies in the audio.

Change Pitch - changes the pitch/frequency of the selected audio without changing the tempo. When you open the dialog, the starting frequency is set to Audacity's best guess as to the frequency of the selection. This works well for recordings of singing or musical instruments without background noise. You can specify the pitch change in one of four different ways: musical note, semitones, frequency, or percent change.

Change Speed - changes the speed of the audio by resampling. Making the speed higher will also increase the pitch, and vice versa. This will change the length of the selection.

Change Tempo - changes the tempo (speed) of the audio without

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PYLE Audio PLTTB3U manual Effect Menu

PLTTB3U specifications

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